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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-06-18
AN OPEN LETTER.
HAGERsTowN, June IS, 1887.
MESSRS. EDITORS OF THE HERALD,
MARTINsBURG, w. VA.

GENTLEMEN We want to thank you
for publishing a paper, through the
columns of which, we can reach many
persons with information of profit and
value to them, as well as of importance
to ourselves; we want to say to the
readers of your paper that we would as
soon stop storekeeping as to stop keep
ing our name and business constantly
before their eyes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-06-18

in bookkeeping and manufacturing, sue
cessfully increasing each and every
year of that period, has settled the ques-
ton that the four leading features with
which we started out and have steadily
held fast to, are the main points TO which
we owe our success. AS we have never
kept them
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-06-18

Sold by all druggists and dealers in
medicines. nvS7
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-06-18

The earnings of the Cumberland
Valley Railroad Company for the
first quarter of this year were S17. 900
over those Of last year.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

the creation, control and results Of these
evonts Victoria had personally, or In
her sovereign capacity, not very much
more to do than some of the unknown
officials in the departments of the
government, who follow the orders
of the ministers. England has had sew
enteen administrations during her reign,
and the ministries that represented these
were indeed of her creation; but having
been created, the queen was thereafter
little better than q figure-head in the
government. There are certain matters
which require the assent of the sover.
elgn, but it is the ministry that shapes
the national policy and directs the ad.
ministration of affairs, as the represent
atives of the majority party in the par.
Lament. There was time when the
will and influence of the sovereign was
felt in all the affairs of government, but
Victoria was not gifted with a talent for
affairs of state, and it is doubtless better
for herself aud the nation that she has
none of the characteristics in this regard
of Elizabeth, of Anne, or of Mary of
Orange. If history cannot accord her
fame for the possession of great
administrative ability, it can at
least credit her with the wisdom
of not having greatly concerned herself
with affairs about which she knew little
and was perhaps incapable of fully COM
pretending. The accession of Victoria
was the opportunity of constitutional
government, and it is hardly possible
that the English nation will ever again
tolerate personal government.
right understanding of this would
serve to lessen the hostile feeling of a
very considerable number of people re.
garding the jubilee, which is really more
IN honor of the woman than the queen.
There are ardent loyalists in England
still who venerate sovereignty, but the
great body of the people have little res.
pect for it. Victoria the woman, how
ever, is not unworthy of popu-
lar honor, for while she has
some inherited faults that havo
initiated against her usefulness and
her popularity, she also has merits and
virtues that commend her to regard.
These impartial history will sure ly re.
cord to her credit, whatever contempor-
arv Judgment may be. But there are
many thousands of people IN Great
Britain who will have no sympathy with
this occasion, and who will find good
reason IN theN political or social condi-
ton to heap lmprecations upon all who
are identified with 1t. VINO shall say that
they have not justification for this? SO
far as the American people are concerned,
the jubilee can have only the passing in
terest for them of any unusual and not
able social event of European happen
ings.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

THERE is no apparent falling off in the
trade movement of the country as indi-
Gated by the weekly bank clearances.
These are remarkably we'll maintained
for this season of the year, and what is
particularly noticeable in the record is
the fact that with the exception of q
single city there was an increase last
week rs compared with the CORES pond
ing week of last year. 1t is also to be
noted that in the percentage of increase
Omaha is largrly in advance of any
other city. The present condition of the
money market is favorable. and the i'm
mediate outlook presents no cause for
apprehension. What the situation may
be later on, when the crop movement is
in full course, cannot be certainly de-
termined at this distance.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

WHEN the owpers of property asked to
have Sherman avenue paved with cedar
blocks, they had no idea that they were
converting their beautiful street into a
race track, and rendering it dangerous
thoroughfare for their wives and chill
dren. Every evening the street is filled
with single and double teams driving at
the top of their horses speed, often regu-
lar races, and at all times made danger
Gus for family teams and pedestrians.
Mayor Broach should station force of
policeman on this street north of lizard.
with instructions to arrest all who are
driving faster than six miles per hour.
Safety to those who are necessarily
forced to use the strret, and honest deal
ing with property owners, who paid their
part of the cost of paving, demand such
protection from fast men and sporting
women who have no regard for the
rights of decent people. We hope the
police will be instructed to put stop to
this abuse
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
Weed Out Worthless Teachers.


The board of education is about to elect
teachers for the coming year 1t Is to be
hoped the board will inaugurate q new
departure by selecting only the most com.
petent and efficient teachers, and requir-
ing every teacher promoted from lower
to higher grade to stand an examina-
ton for that grade and procure certfi-
cate of competency.
The board should also insist that the su-
perintendent shall make written recon-
mendation for every teacher re- employed
for the coming year. The superintendent
should certainly have personal knowledge
of the qualifications and relative capacity
of every teacher now employed and he
should know which of them have proven
themselves worthy of promotion or re-
tentlon. The responsibility for efficient
work must be placed upon the shoulders
of the Superintendent, and his recon-
mendations should be respected.
On the other hand the superintendent
should not allow himself to be swerved
from the discharge of his duty by fear or
favor. Incompetent teachers and useless
barnacles should be weeded out and com.
petent teachers disqualified by bad tenn
per or physical disability should not
be retained. 1t is not merely a
reckless waste of money to employ such
teachers, but it is II crime against the
rising generation of men and women
whose educational training is entrusted
to teachers in our public schools.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
An Active Competitor.

The movements of the Canadian Pacific
railroad, which for some time have been
marked by great vigor and enterprise,
are source Of much interest and concern
to American railroads with which the
Canadian corporation will challenge
competition. Indeed they have an even
more extentended interest than this as a
San Francisco contemporary forcibly
points out. Referring to the recent ar
rival Of the steamship Abyssinnia at Van
couver. that paper remarks that the event
means that the Canadian Pacific is in
earnest, and that il San Francisco wants
TO protect its Asiatlc trade 1t must begin
to bestir itself 1t will not do, it says, to
despise this new northern competitor.
Port Moody has good harbor, and il is
430 miles nearer Yokohama than San
Francisco. 1t has two governments
behind it. Political as we'll as
commercial considerations are involved
IN its struggle for trade. If it can make
itself the Pacific landing place for the
trade of Asia with Great Britain, says
our contemporary, point will be scored
IN favor OF the maintenance OF the colo
nial connection, and simultaneously a
blow will be struck at the supremacy of
San Francisco.
One of the apprchended dangers from
the threatened diversion of trade is its
possible bearing on the reopcning of the
coolie trade. A considerable opposition
has been developed in the Canadian par
lament to the exclusion act and it is q
not improbable suppostion that this hos
tility may have been started now with
view to future action for the repeal of
the act should the interests of the Cana
dian Pacific steamship company require
it. With permission given to this com.
pany to bring over Cinnamon, it would
undoubtedly soon have full control of
that trade, to the material loss of the
American lines from San Francisco.
Furthermore, if Cinnamon are brought
to Canada, where there is no demand
for them, they will certainly find their
way into the United States, unless still
more stringent laws are made for their
exclusion, and thus there would be
another influx of these people to this
country while the charge for bringing
them here would all go into foreign
pockets. Such prospect is certainly
not to be viewed with entire compla-
cency, and our San Francisco contem-
porary does we'll to sound the alarm
But it would have done still better if it
had suggested some adequate means Of
meeting the threatened exigency The
obvious fact is that If we are less liberal
and less enterprising than our COM
petitor we shall be beaten in the
contest, and it remains to be seen
what the repres entatives of California IN
congress and its capitalists interested IN
the steamship lines are willing to do to
meet the impending difficulty. Canada
will probably have no sentiment in the
matter. Whatever is done will un-
doubtedly be in strictly practical lines.
1t will be necessary. therefore, to meet
them in practical way. Being first in
we ought to have the advantage of the
situation
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
or purchase by the defendant or his

grantor.
g. Claimant must also file with said dc.
cree and certificate a bill of costs in such
case, duly certified by the clerk and
under the seal of the court in which the
decree was rendered.
A. Claimants of the second class will be
required to furnish Il certified copy of tho
record of the transfer from said company,
or from the conpany's grantee, with cvi.
dcnce that he has in good faith paid to
the person holding the prior title the
sum demanded without litigation.
g. Claimants of the third class should
apply for rcfundmcnt of purchase
money III accordance with regulations
governing the repayment of purchase
money for lands enormously sold.
u. When the grantee, assignee, or de-
visce OF the original purchaser makes
application under this act he must, in ad-
ditlon to the foregoing, show his right to
receive the money by furnishing proper
authenticated abstracts of title or tho
original deed or instrument of assign
mcnt, or of the will, or certified copies
thereof.
Z. When application is made by heirs,
satisfactory proof of heirship is required.
.. When application is made by exc
cutors, the original or certified copy OF
letters testamentary must accompany tho
application.
.. When application is made by ad.
ministrators, the original or a certified
copy of letters of administration must DO
furnished.
10. All parties who are entitled to re.
payment under the aforesaid act, will be
required to execute n REIMBURSEMENT
which must accompany the application
in the following or equivalent form:
Know all men by these presents, that l,
-, of -, for and in consideration of the
sum of =, TO mo paid by the United States,
have released and forever discharged the
United States from all claim of any kind
nature, and character whatsoever, by virtue
OF the act OF congress approved March 3,
1887; and that am the Identical party named
IN the decree, in the case of - VS.. -, or
who made said entry No. -, at - land
Office, state of -.
Two witnesses:
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
CheaDer Gas,

Complaint is made that the restrictions
which the council has Incorporated into
the franchise recently granted to the
Kansas 4 Nebraska gas company will
prevent capitalists from investing in that
enterprise and leave the city at the mercy
of the gas monopoly. That depends on
the council and also on public opinion.
The new gas company may not avail
itself of the restricted franchise which
the council has granted. but that
does not necessarily deprive this city
of the benefits Of cheaper gas.
II the present gas rates are exorbitant
the council has right to reduce tn en-
The charter expressly gives the mayor
and council power to regulate gas rates
and it Is manifestly the duty of the coun-
c,l to exercise this power from time to
time. The cost of manufacturing gas
depends largely on the quantity con-
sumed. II the consumption ut Omaha
warrants material reduction in gas
rates the council should ordain 1t. The
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
Land Marks DiaannearinQ.

According to the Denver papers, the
great cattle ranges of Colorado have al
most disappeared, and cattle growing on
the range in Colorado will by another
season be thing of the past.
The annual roundup of the year will
probably be the last occurrence of the kind
growing, paper there says that it does
not mean that Colorado will produce any
less cattle than before, but more. They
will be grown and brought to higher
grade on smaller ranches or stock farms,
where their ranges will be limited, where
they will be herded or fenced in, and
where they will be fed in the corral IN
the winter, instead of being allowed to
freeze and starve on the storm. swept
plains.
10 those who are familiar with the
cattle industry OF Colorado. this lnforma-
ton regarding the disappearance of cattle
ranges will be surprise During the
last ten years many men have engaged
in raising cattle on the ranges, and
thousands of dollars have been invested IN
ranches for no other purpose.
Yet il all will tend to assist Colorado
in her settlement and DEVELOPMENT. The
cowboy and the ranchman will give way
and surrender the large tracts of land for
the farmer who will till the soil and be-
come citizens Of one of the rapidly grow
ing states of the west. The hand of set
tlement is laying its magic fingers upon
what was few years ago a wilderness
the waste is transformed into landscape
of bearing orchards and fruitful fields.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

AN Iowa man has recently shipped
100000 young pine trees from Black
River Falls, WIS, to Iowa, to be trans
planted. 1t is said that he has made
shipment nearly every year for the lasl
thirty years, and claims that his expert
ence is that these trees are the most
thrifty and hardy, and make the best
wind breaks of any tree that has yet been
tried on the Iowa prairies. The Wiscon-
sin pine tree might also prove thrifty in
this state
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

FOLLOWING the masons of st. Louis
the Dakota Grand Lodge of Masons re-
Gently passed the following resolution.
That no person who is engaged IN the
business of keeping saloon or engaged
in the business of retailing Intoxicating
liquors to be used as beverage shall be
initiated in any subordinate lodge in this
jurisdiction, nor shall any brother Mason
who Is engaged in such business be re.
ceived in any lodge by afliliation. "
Other lodges of the great order will
pass similar resolutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

THE agony is over. The oil inspector
has been appointed, and the applicants
with their numerously signed petitions
are left without commission. Hon.
Smith L. Caldwell, of Nuckolls county,
was the choice of Governor Thayer. The
governor says he was his personal choice,
had not solicitedit, and no one hadI rec
commended him.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

The weather conditions generally of
the past week were favorable to the ma
turing crops, rs well rs to the work of
gathering the harvest IN those sections
where it has ripened. An improvement
over the previous week is almost univcr-
sally reported, the principal exception
being Kansas, where the damage from
unfavorable weather and the ravages OF
insects has been so serious that short
crop Is inevitable. In Nebraska there was
an abundant rainfall, and the indications
are that the yield will be at least 90 per
cent, and may be higher than that. The
outlook for Iowa is favorable, though the
counties from which reports have been
received do not place the average above
81 per cent. There are some contingent
cies yet to be apprehended, and it is quite
possible tha, the bountiful results prom.
ised by present indications may not be
fully realized. but there is extremely little
probability that the crop will not be
ample, assuring ali that this country will
need and considerable quantity TO
spare.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska JOUtings.

NeDruSAo OOVulnGS.
Chadron wants 10000 court house.
The Wayne creamery packs 500 pounds
of butter per day.
Fremont claims a population of 5000
and tlattering foreground.
The school board OF Papillion has
raised the wages of teachers $40 a month.
Cocktail bushes are increasing with
the capacity of the distillery in Nebraska
City.
Pierce county is discussing ways and
means to raise $4,000 to build II court
house.
The contract for the Methodist univcr-
sity at Lincoln has been let. The price is
SG9, 600.
Broken Bow proposes.to paralyZe di.
vision schemers by investing 100000 in Il
county court house.
Charlie Swedcnburg, a useless young
scamp, is recuperating In the Norfolk
Jail from the effects OF stealing $52 from
his mother.
Plattsmouth has tackled the paving
question in a business way. A PROPOSE
ton to issue $4,000 in bonds will be
voted on July 25
The Pacific hose team of Grand Island,
champions of the state, propose to go to
the Kearney tournament and make a
lOHS maui Oh tilc pIlLc purses.
A band of exhair litters will exhibit
themselves to pilgrim settlers and sam.
pie Hay Springs fire water on the Fourth
An extra supply OF snake bite Will be i'm
ported tor the occasion.
Mrs. Shellenberger. the tiendish
woman who helped to murder her own
child IN Otoe county, wisely chose
Lincoln for her tussle with the blind
goddess. The bout resulted in a partial
victory. The next round will result IN
the death of the. ID. G. The Lincoln
maiden is born consumptive.
Iowa Items
Fort Dodge is negotiating for watch
factory employing 300 hands.
j. V. March, of Webster City, dropped
full hand in a corn sheller.
The roller mill at Alton, rebuilt at a
cost of $4,000, is again grinding.
A young man named Charles j. Valin,
Swcde, was drowned in the Little Sioux
near Cherokee, Thursday evening. The
remains were recovered Friday morning
The coal prospqctors at Anita, in Cass
county, have drilled through an immense
stratum of slate aud other material 450
feet, and are now going through rock
with iron pyrites, but have seen no sign
of coal. u,
burlington Dus!HcsS men are ioIuiiiS q
stock company with $4,000 capital,
shares of $40 each, to bore for gas and
water. Work will begin when $4,000 is
subscribed and $4,000 paid in.
While the officers were in the basement
of Lang's Muscatine brewery in search
of beer, the lights were suddenly extin-
guished and the hose turned upon the
bewildered ''minions OF the law" The
drinks in the establishment were more
mixed than was anticipated.
Dakota.
Buffalo Gap can now be painted red at
trifiing cost. A mine of red paint has
been discovered near the city.
The Harney Peak company has pur-
chased the, Excelsior group of tin mines
for $4,000.
The thermometer indicated 100 in the
shxde ut Pierre Wednesday, and the
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

The New York boodlers are in the pen
itentiary. The Chicago boodlers have
been convicted and will soon be dressing
stone at Joliet. Omaha boodlers are still
at large but the chances are that some of
them will wear zebra suit within the
next six months. 1t is IN the air. The
boodler must 90.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

THAT close corporation known as the
board of commissioners of Douglas
county has not published a report of its
proceedings for eighteen months or two
years. During that period the commls-
sioners have disbursed between four and
five hundred thousand dollars without
letting the taxpayers know where a
single dollar went to.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

IT has been made part of the Illinois
railway commissions duty to examine
bridges. The bridges will perhaps be
examined like complaints are heard by
the Nebraska commission. That is to
ride through the country at thirty miles
per hour, look out the car window oc.
caslonally and report that "all seem
aoti .fiod "
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

THERE is deep seated feeling in this
community that the warfare waged
against Chief Seavey was not mere per-
sonal vendetta. The general and well
founded opinion is that the opposition
has been inspired by the outlaw elements
which have been plotting and schcming
for months to control our police under
the new dispensaton.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

old gas company can certainly afford to
supply gas as cheaply as any competing
company which at best would divide
patronage and profits with it and by re.
ducing consumption would impair the
ability of the old company to make re-
ductions which II could otherwise afford
IN lo
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

In his speech in defense of the Chicago
boodlers, who were found guilty, Satur-
day, Luther Lailin Mills said of ones
character: Character is the great fact
of human life or the individual lives of
human men. 1t is not the creature of a
moment; it is not the product of any
occasion or event. 1t is fabric built up
by lifetime Of toll and conduct. 1t Is
not shaped by others; not even parents
in ones childhood can mold 1t to perfec-
ton. 1t is the ripe product of time. 1t
is made by years The good opinions of
mankind come only as they are earned
by industry and honest life."
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

ground is getting so dry that fears are
entertained for the wheat crop
1t Is announced that an experimental
bore made in the earth within four miles
of Pierre struck deposit of natural gas.
and that large flow has been secured.
Last Wednesday n twenty y-pound pulley
fell from derrick in Yankton and
struck John Sevcrson, tie artesian well
contractor, on the head. The skull was
crushed, yet the doctors say the patient
will rpcoypr
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
STATE Of

COUNTY Or 80
On ths--day of U.s., before tho
subscriber, AIN and for said county per
sonally came--to me we'll known to be the
person who subscribed the foregoing release,
and who upon being duly sworn by me ac-
cording to law on--Oath declared and ac-
knowledged that--had freely and volun-
tarily executed the foregoing release and for
the reason stated; and at the same time came
--residing at---and alSo--residlng
at, each of whom being by me duly
sworn according to law deposed and said.
each for himself and not for the other, that
they well knew the person making the said
release to be the individual described In the
decree, or who made said entry and who ex-
ecuted the said release.
Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged
before me this, 1SS-.
NoTR-This must be acknowledged before n
clerk of a court or other officer authorized to
take acknowledgements OF deeds In the
county where the lands are situated, wh Ose
official character and signature must be GER
tilted to by the clerk of q court Of record.
Respectfully. VIM. A. j. SPARKS.
Commissioner.
Approved May 81, 1887.
IL. l.. MULDRow,
Acting Secretary.
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

UNDER the new law passed by the
Missouri legislature, Kansas city has no
bucket-shops. There is yet a chance for
the reckless speculator to invest in town
Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21

GOVERNOR HILL says his favorite way
of spending summers evening is to
lean back in chair on the piazza "and
reflect" Grover Cleveland has doubt
less found the same employment the last
foy